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Havoc as leopard returns; 1 hurt

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March 17, 2012

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Mysore, March 17: After a lull of a few months, a leopard strayed into the city on?Friday, causing anxious moments for hours. However, unlike previous such instances, an elderly man suffered injuries when the big cat attacked him unaware.


Abdul Rehman?Shariff, aged 60 years and a watchman at an autorickshaw shed in A?J?Block on Udayagiri main road, came out of the shed after hearing the barking dogs. It was around 6 am and curious Shariff moved further, only to be attacked by the big cat.

Petrified, he fell on his back, while the leopard bit him on his hand, abdomen and also right leg. He also suffered heard injuries in the melee.

When the barking dogs came running behind, the leopard jumped on the autos parked inside and made its way into a thick bush near a huge drain behind Doddamma Thaayi Kalyana Mantapa.

Forest personnel, who by then had been informed about the incident from the control room at deputy commissioner’s office, rushed to the spot only to hear about the incident.

The leopard played hide and seek and remained elusive. Around 11 am, a local informed the forest personnel about sighting the wild animal near a bush. To their dismay, when they kept a watch on the bush from the other side of the drain, nothing fructified.

Moreover, a stray dog went inside the bush and came out forcing the personnel on toes with a tranquiliser gun on his hand to have a second thought.

Unfazed, some among the public thought of an idea and hit the bush with a ladder repeatedly, forcing the hiding leopard to eventually come out. The operation that had taken a pause awhile, regained pace at 11 am, when the leopard gave some hard time for the forest personnel to dart.


Finally, after receiving two shots of dart, the leopard gave up, facilitating forest and alert public to net the animal. It was a male, aged about five years. It was also robust, assistant conservator of forest Devaraj told Deccan Herald. The leopard was later released near Kaimara bordering Kerala, at D?B?Kuppe forest range in Nagarahole National Park.


Don’t disturb them’

In an appeal that could evade possible danger during leopard sightings in the city, assistant conservator of forest Devaraj said: “All animals are shy in nature and they do not harm anybody if left undisturbed. The animals react and attack only when they are either teased or hit by external force. With shrinking forest cover, leopards are breeding in sugarcane fields in all parts of the state, as they find it safe. During summer, they venture out of the fields.”

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News Network
February 20,2020

Nagpur, Feb 19: The Central Bureau of Investigation said that it has arrested a former employee of Union Carbide Bhopal, who was absconding since 2016.

A senior CBI official said on Wednesday that the agency sleuths arrested S I Qureshi from Maharashtra’s Nagpur on Tuesday, who was convicted by a local court here in connection with the Bhopal gas tragedy case.

The official further said that he had been absconding since 2016.

He added that the convict would be produced in a district court.

On December 3, 1984, forty tonnes of methyl isocyanate leaked from the Union Carbide pesticide factory and settled over slums in Bhopal

A Bhopal court convicted eight people in 2010 to two years each in jail over the gas plant leak that killed thousands of people.

The eight convicted included the Chairman of the Indian arm of the Union Carbide (UCIL) Keshub Mahindra, Managing Director V P Gokhale, Vice-president Kishore Kamdar, Works Manager J Mukund, Production manager S P Chowdhury, Plant superintendent K V Shetty and Production Assistant Qureshi.

The CBI had taken over the Bhopal gas tragedy case on December 12, 1984.

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July 12,2020

Tamil Nadu, Jul 12: An alleged attempt by a 19-year-old man to "open a branch of the State Bank of India" at Panruti near Tamil Nadu was scuttled and he was arrested for forgery, police said on Saturday.

The man, son of retired SBI employees, had readied fake seals and challans of the public sector lender, and had other paraphernalia like a cash counting machine needed "to run a bank branch," on an upper floor of his residence at Panruti, about 25 km from Tamil Nadu.

He had not, however, put up any signboard. The SBI Panruti branch manager lodged a complaint with police seeking action following a tip-off by a customer that the man was "opening an SBI branch and has challans as well."

A printer who printed the challans and another who had made fake seals were held for similar offences and abetment.

They were produced before a magistrate court and enlarged on bail.

Asked if the man had cheated people by soliciting deposits or facilitating loans, Panruti police inspector K Ambethkar said, "no..we have not received any such complaint so far."

The man's late father had worked for SBI and his mother had retired from the same bank some time back, he said.

To a question, the police inspector said the man's mother, who has mobility issues, and another woman a relative living in the same house had no clue about his "idea."

Investigations revealed that he aspired to work for a bank and since he had closely watched banking operations for long he was "very knowledgeable" about it.

On the suspected motive, he said several of his replies were incomprehensible, childish, and strange notwithstanding his excellent understanding of the banking processes.

"He even calmly told us that he awaited approval from Mumbai to open the (SBI) branch and that he was about to put up a signboard," the inspector said, adding that the man had tried unsuccessfully to get employment on compassionate grounds in the SBI following the death of his father in harness.

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Agencies
July 28,2020

Noida, Jul 28: A doctor admitted at a private hospital in Noida has been accused of sexually harassing a patient in his isolation ward, where both were undergoing treatment for COVID-19, the police said.

The 20-year-old woman, in her complaint to the police, alleged that the incident took place on Monday and based on that a case was filed at the local expressway police station, they said.

A senior police official said an investigation is underway and there might be lapses on part of the hospital which allegedly admitted a man and a woman in the same isolation ward, in violation of the norms.

The woman and the doctor had tested positive for coronavirus last week, according to officials.

"The woman was in the isolation ward of the private hospital. There was a man, a medical practitioner, who too was infected with coronavirus and was sharing the ward with her," Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police, Noida, Ranvijay Singh said.

He said the woman alleged molestation and upon being informed, the police immediately lodged a case and initiated a probe into the matter.

"There appears to be some irresponsibility on part of the hospital too. We are communication with the medical departments to check whether the patients were being kept in accordance with the guidelines," Mr Singh said.

He said the accused is still in isolation but the police will reach out for his statement following due protocols of COVID-19.

"All necessary action will be taken as per the truth that will emerge after a thorough investigation," Mr Singh said.

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